it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones.
Charles BukowskiI have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.
Charles BukowskiThis is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful.
Charles Bukowski